RIDGWAY - Lookup request marriage, death, anything!

[tristiw]

Stessy.  To excited to say much except there's a personal mail on the way.   

Jenn...I have discovered that Sarah and William didn't divorce, but Sarah remarried Henry John Pring in 1897.

Sarah, Henry John and Lily Ridgway Pring were all living in Gloucester in 1901 - but were mistranscribed as Bring and Lily was said to have been born in Qasmania, Hobart.  That's why we couldn't find them. 

Now I am busy looking for deaths of Sarah Pring and Lily's marriage.   Unfortunately there's about a million of them. 
Perhaps I'll find Mary Rossiter with them. 

[Cas (stallc)]

This looks like Frank Rossiter...

1901 - RG13 Piece 2322 Folio 80 Page 23

Boarder with the 'Burge' family

looks likely Marriage Jun 1902   
 
Burge  Elizabeth Mary A    Axbridge  5c 909   
Dade  Georgina Augusta     Axbridge  5c 909   
Rossiter  Frank     Axbridge  5c 909   
Thomas  Frank     Axbridge  5c 909

Cas

[tristiw]

Good work with the Rossiters Deb & Cas!
I must admit, Rossiter is such a common name that it makes my eyes go like this  every time I look for them.  You guys are so much better at it than me. 
Right now I am trawling through 'Rossiter' death images past 1920 to try and find Mary Rossiter.  (I think it may be a lost cause)
She wasn't with her daughter Sarah in the 1901 census, so every other Rossiter you find brings me one step closer to Mary (I think).  I really want to find her death so I can order her death certificate.  I got her husband's already.  He died of Cystitis - Natural decay.  No Alzheimer's there.
Thanks for the continuing interest.  Back to the eye popping 

[tristiw]

Hey Deb,
If I'm descended from Jane Bray, and you have Brays in your family tree...we could be related too!
Wouldn't it be weird if you found out you were helping a very long lost cousin?

[deb usa]

Hi tristi

My Brays come from north Devon too!! at the moment the furthest back I have gone is William Bray b c 1813 , Hatherleigh.

My gg grandmother Elizabeth Bray (1853) married William Henry Adams.


will investigate 

deb

[Cas (stallc)]

Hi tristiw, just read your blog, Mary is still alive in West Monkton in 1901 with daughter Alice, as Debs mentioned in previous post. 

Cannot locate her death, but she could have gone to live with any of her children, as you suggested.  Also son James married Louisa Parsons, and is in 1891 / 1901 with his family.

1901 for Mary - RG13 Piece: 2275 Folio 6 Page 3

Cas

[tristiw]

Cas & Deb,
sorry about that.  I either didn't write it down or I haven't printed off the updated gedcom file for Mary.

As for James marrying a Parsons... , that means Oliver's uncle married his wife's sister!  I guess West Monkton was a very small place.  I hate to think what that means for a diminished gene pool. 

I think I've got to the stage where I'm going to have to investigate the whole Parsons and Rossiter households to find where Mary ended up.  The good news is that maybe I'll come across Ellen Ridgway (nee Parsons) in the mix. I'm also missing the deaths of George & Flora Parsons (Ellen's parents).  I might spend some time double checking I've had all the information entered into Gedcom files and printing off the most recent copy though.  Might take a while.

Thanks for your help guys.

[tristiw]

From Deb's reply #78,
I searched for children born after 1900 with last name Rossiter mmn Singleton.
I found:
Evelyn Rossiter b1912 d1912
Isabella Rossiter b1913
Ellen Rossiter b1915
Emily b1917
Ivy b1919
And then the records seem to run out
All born in Neath, Breconshire, Glamorgan (Wales)

So I searched for Rossiter deaths after 1900 in Neath, Breconshire, Glamorgan - and all I found was Evelyn.  I didn't find any parents, nor did I find Mary Rossiter.  She must be somewhere else. 

[tristiw]

And from Cas's reply #82:

Looked for Rossiter births mmn Burge:

Olive G Rossiter b 1912 Bridgwater just down the road from West Monkton

I'm really looking for somewhere other than that parish for Mary Rossiter's children, so I can narrow down my list of dead Mary Rossiter's that were born around 1838 (or 1836 or 1837 depending on which census you look at)

I'll keep looking